"The Old Course" at Sugar Loaf is an 18-hole resort golf course in Cedar, Michigan.

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holes

par

6,813

yards (tips)

130

slope (blue)

The shape of the round · Blue teespublished figures only

The published card in playing order, 18 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

designer: C.D. Wagstaff reported
access: resort
address: 4512 South Townline Road, Cedar, MI, 49621
phone: 231-228-2040
website: course site →
elevation: 773 ft derived
opened: 1966
on site: pro shop

44.91337, -85.81096 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 6 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

159 traced features across 8 layers for "The Old Course" at Sugar Loaf, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

6,473yds

Blue tees

618yds

Longest hole

155yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-09-08

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 3 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Blue	M	72	6813	73.6	130	3302	3511
middle	M	72	6124	70.3	120	3006	3118
forward	M	74	5134	70.7	129	2538	2596

Every figure as published; a blank cell is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	4	4	3	4	3	5	4	5	4	4	5	4	4	4	3	5	3	72
Blue	429	340	357	155	422	195	485	354	565	410	414	493	322	433	443	185	618	193	6,813
middle	405	320	316	141	402	162	465	335	460	382	355	478	293	401	350	135	540	184	6,124
forward	386	280	243	128	342	105	370	294	390	329	248	394	255	376	297	125	431	141	5,134

We don't hold a stroke index for this course's holes, so that row is not above. The yardages are every figure we hold hole by hole.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan "The Old Course" at Sugar Loaf hole by hole, for your game.

Ask in plain words. The Studio draws each hole on the aerial photo, picks a club for each shot from your carries and the way you miss, and shows where a miss costs you strokes. Where a green was surveyed, it reads the slope too.

The approach, planned Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
The green, from LiDAR Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
Every shot, tee to green Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

Plan this course in the Studio

Pictures: Studio output for a sample golfer, drawn 2026-10-15. The Studio needs a free account. AI can make mistakes.

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to "The Old Course" at Sugar Loaf's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

Check tee times and rates

Also bookable nearby: Manitou Passage Golf Club (0.7 mi) · The Leelanau Club at Bahle Farms (7.1 mi) · Mountain Flowers (7.6 mi) · Dunes Golf Club (11 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

Figure	This course	In Michigan	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	6,813 yds	=135th of 592	=3,379th of 12,025	4th of 17 in the Traverse City, MI metro area · 271st of 601 resort courses · =1,601st of 7,004 courses you can book · =3,355th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 130	=184th of 410	=3,777th of 8,710	=8th of 14 in the Traverse City, MI metro area · =298th of 477 resort courses · =1,625th of 4,936 courses you can book · =3,684th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 73.6	=77th of 371	=1,853rd of 7,615	3rd of 14 in the Traverse City, MI metro area · =151st of 446 resort courses · =772nd of 4,145 courses you can book · =1,838th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,679 yds between tees	205th of 565	=4,247th of 11,523	12th of 17 in the Traverse City, MI metro area · =332nd of 593 resort courses · =2,202nd of 6,653 courses you can book · =4,184th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1966	=204th of 475	=3,897th of 9,368	6th of 17 in the Traverse City, MI metro area · =115th of 516 resort courses · =1,972nd of 5,526 courses you can book · =2,747th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	773 ft derived	=364th of 644	=5,194th of 12,437	13th of 21 in the Traverse City, MI metro area · 329th of 616 resort courses · =3,383rd of 7,274 courses you can book · =3,660th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress3 of 6 built

3 of 6 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 2 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 3 sets of tees.
Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
Per-hole distances, not built yet.We can't tie the mapped playing line to the published hole distances, so we're not showing distances here.
Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
Course details, partly built.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold the grass on the greens.

The site is in beta and the database is still being built, so expect gaps. Know something we don't? Help us fill it in — a link to where it's published is worth more than anything else you could send.

Sources

Gathered from the course's own site and public records — every figure on this page is traceable to who published it and when. Spot an error or a gap? Tell us.

Location and identity seeded from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Last checked 2026-08-14. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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